two usb C ports on the top left for scale, currently trying to figure out how to build a linux image for it 🤷‍♀️

  • seahorse [Ohio]A
    101·
    2 years ago

    Who makes this? Is it essentially just a raspberry pi zero w but with a risc-v processor?

    • vitaminka@lemmy.mlOP
      12·
      2 years ago

      that’s a very big just 😄, but yes, it’s made by a company (which i suspect is just a single guy potentially lol) called mangopi

      also this one has 1gb of ram instead of 512mb of rpi zero 2, plus it has usb C ports instead of micro usb

        • vitaminka@lemmy.mlOP
          7·
          2 years ago

          it is 😎

          they actually already have a prototype of a similar board that’s literally smaller than an SD-card 🤯

          and it has 1gb of ram and a quad core cpu 😮 (though, as you can see, it only interfaces via pins, so it’s more of a compute module than a standalone board)

          and i have to say that the support is still not great, like, you need to build linux a linux image yourself with third party tools and many things aren’t working yet, but overall, i’m very excited for RISC-V and its potential (and other boards from this company)

        • vitaminka@lemmy.mlOP
          6·
          2 years ago

          they also have a board that’s about 40x40 millimetres, which i also have, but i can’t access it to showcase here unfortunately, but it was more of an early prototype: it only has 64mb of ram 😬, so not great performance, but cool for stuff like making your own OS 🤷‍♀️

        • vitaminka@lemmy.mlOP
          3·
          2 years ago

          yeah, honestly

          it costs like a dollar more (even with the controller), and i’d happily pay that for any device, no matter the budget range, just for the convenience being able to use a single cable and not having to dig through a pile of micro usb cable 🤷‍♀️